Christ . . . will appear a second time . . . to save those who are eagerly waiting for Him (Hebrews 9:28). This eager waiting of the early church for her Bridegroom to come explains why she prayed the way she did. You cant really long for something as intensely as she longed for Christ and not cry out to God. So she cried out and prayed, Lord, thy kingdom come! Maranatha! Come, Lord Jesus! Surely, this hunger for Christ needs to be restored in the comfortable church of the prosperous West. The absence of fasting is indicative of our comfort with the way things are. No one fasts to express how content they are. People only fast out of dissatisfaction. The attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast (Matthew 15:9). The absence of fasting is the measure of our contentment with the absence of Christ. -John Piper in his book A Hunger for God.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 02:38:37 +0000
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